Sentences with phrase «blue water footprint»

«Globally, the blue water footprint (i.e., the consumption of surface and groundwater resources) of food wastage is about 250 cubic kilometres, which is equivalent to the annual water discharge of the Volga river [in Russia], or three times the volume of [Switzerland's] Lake Geneva.

Hoekstra, A. Y., Mekonnen, M. M., Chapagain, A. K., Mathews, R. E. & Richter, B. D. Global monthly water scarcity: blue water footprints versus blue water availability.

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Basically, they added three quantities: the consumption of rainwater (the so - called green water footprint); the use of ground - and surface water (blue); and the volume of gray water polluted (and therefore depleted).

Consider selections from Kate Coombs» Water Sings Blue: Ocean Poems or Footprints on the Roof: Poems about the Earth and How to Cross a Pond: Poems about Water, both by Marilyn Singer.

Nestled amongst 23 oceanfront acres at the footprint of legendary Black Rock, on Ka`anapali Beach, Sheraton Maui Resort & Spa provides the ideal setting to watch as whales spout and breach in the blue waters of the Pacific.

Lovers castaway on a remote tropical shoreline where the finest of white sand slopes down to clear blue waters and the only footprints on the beach are yours.